I missed your post just above mine last night where you said you got a "love you daddy" from your young lady, i miss them words so much it hurts my
heart but i am glad you got them words, it is a good sign and i hope it continues that way for your whole family mate.
I will be hoping for you and thank you for your kind words as well mate.

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Bally I am so glad that you are starting to see a glimmer of light. It will still not be an easy road but at least it is not beating the family up
like it was. I hope that she has possibly come to see that she has a problem. I'm not saying it will be easy in any way but that is the first step
to making progress. At least you might not be fighting a brick wall.

Just understand that with progress there will be back steps and there will be bad days. Don't loose hope! Thank you so much for the update. It is
so good to "hear" that you don't seem to be struggling as much. The constant worry must be putting a strain on you let along the family.

I will continue to keep you and your family in my thoughts and prayers and hope that we continue to see positive updates.

Cheers Hutch, young girl was away for 5 days staying with another girl in that lasses parents house. Came home today. Seems okay. I'm keeping low
key.

She is still working so in that respect she hasn't dropped her responsibilities.

Nice to hear yer old man's mate has crabs in his bag

. Nah good to hear. Crabs all round down your way aye. I have my dam stocked with bass and perch but a bloody great eel has appeared among them.
I'm concentrating on attempting to remove said eel with least possible damage so that's about all the water sports I've been indulging myself in.

Well, my guess it is a large Conger eel. Black. About a meter and a half long. Was never there before and I thought I cleared the dam of eels.
Just feeding the fish in afternoon and the flamin thing swam up and started takin the fish food.

I have read they migrate upstream as the grow larger and can move across land in the wet or when its a heavy dew.

We have a creek through the porperty that flow into the 'Nymboida" So I guess it's made its was up the creek following a re entrant and upwards into
the dam via the overflow.

They are yummy , eels on the other hand i am not sure about , i thought they were quite tasty , perhaps bally can enlighten us .

ETA the funny bit ,i got bit , and when i asked for the pliers to break the bottom half of his nippers off my son went for the camera . Luckily it
was not a February crab as they might get close to 30 inches stretched out .

Trick is NS if you get bit you dont try to fling them off . If you do you will be cut to the bone . Only thing you can do is break their claw off or
break the bottom of the pincer off with pliers or similar . First option is the best .

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